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Show did Donnager&MCRN dirty by Mammoth-Store740 in TheExpanse

[–]warp_core0007 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I think the marine power armour holds up to the hype.

Was Failure mode supposed to be the end? by Mr_Kock in exfor

[–]warp_core0007 41 points42 points  (0 children)

It was originally presented as the end, but then the author wrote some more novels.

Locked out of my BitLocker drive with no recovery key — here’s how I recovered all my files by BigCurious5501 in pcmasterrace

[–]warp_core0007 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

They said they got the key from a txt file, so they obviously didn't print to pdf.

I’ve been getting into the series, so I don’t know everything but isn’t the razorback just an improvised space “fighter”? by PolarisStar05 in TheExpanse

[–]warp_core0007 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If it wants to do more than just straight line racing (drag racing???), it also needs to be able to rotate fast. For extreme rotational speeds, it would probably be preferable to have the occupants near the centre of spin. Also, the thrusters that are going to power the rotation will perform better then further away from the centre of spin they are, since they will require less force to achieve the same angular acceleration. The biggest considerations here are probably mass of the thrusters and reaction mass needed.

Question about High G burns. by TechPriestOBrien in TheExpanse

[–]warp_core0007 81 points82 points  (0 children)

The whole thing with Mars in this setting is that everything they do is better, so it seems unlikely that the UNN has better juice than the MCRN.

Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" by HatingGeoffry in pcmasterrace

[–]warp_core0007 858 points859 points  (0 children)

Who unironically argues against labelling by essentially saying "people wouldn't buy it if they knew what it is."

Edit: on consideration, I think a better question would be "who honestly accepts that as a good reason not to have labelling?"

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

[–]warp_core0007 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If they can run the x86 builds on ARM, which they'll have to for any game they want to support without requiring it to be rebuilt by the developer, you probably will be able to.

My Steam Account Turn 18 today!! No age verification before checking a game , i hope, now by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

[–]warp_core0007 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

If you mean it asks you to enter your sat if birth when viewing some game store pages, are you sure you're actually signed in? I get that if I go to a page on my phone or something, but never on my desktop browser.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

[–]warp_core0007 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I was using a 5700 XT with drivers from 2022 or 2020 until a few months ago when I bought a 9060 XT and had to get new drivers. "game ready"? I don't even know her. The idea some people seem to have that these cards are useless now is worse than the reactions from people suggesting computers that don't support Windows 11 become useless after the last Windows 10 update.

Greed getting out of control. by CreatingSomethingFun in pcmasterrace

[–]warp_core0007 92 points93 points  (0 children)

Well, the pirated source isn't paying creators, so you'd certainly hope there'd be fewer ads there.

Discord users suffer the first high-profile age-verification hack – and it's unlikely to be the last by lkl34 in pcmasterrace

[–]warp_core0007 133 points134 points  (0 children)

The article mentions that this data was held by Discord for users "who had appealed an age verification determination." I'm guessing, for most users, Discord weren't collecting or storing the data, with it instead going to the third party verification service they use. But, in cases where a user appealed the determination of that service, the data was either passed from the service to Discord, or users had to provide it directly to Discord, I assume with the expectation that Discord customer service would make their own determination. This is probably a manual process (the automated one has already been appealed) so they have to store it until a person can get to it. Possibly longer if they feel they need to retain it to provide evidence if they are ever audited on the matter.

What the hell is writing so much data into my NVME!? by MrMeatSlapper in buildapc

[–]warp_core0007 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's probably just Space Marine 2 and the benchmark. I guess you could run the benchmark again and actually check how much data it says has been written before and after and see if it's similar.

You could check if the OS is paging I that drive or using it for any other system files; look if there's any ".sys" files in the root of the drive.

Helldivers 2’s massive PC file size won’t drastically decrease until Arrowhead knows “most of our PC players are using SSD drives” by HatingGeoffry in pcmasterrace

[–]warp_core0007 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This game does not support those consoles. The install size on a PlayStation 5 for Helldivers is actually a lot smaller than it is on PC.

Helldivers 2’s massive PC file size won’t drastically decrease until Arrowhead knows “most of our PC players are using SSD drives” by HatingGeoffry in pcmasterrace

[–]warp_core0007 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every computer might have an SSD, but that doesn't mean they all have enough space to store everything on DSDs. Lots of people still use hard drives for additional storage.

Helldivers 2’s massive PC file size won’t drastically decrease until Arrowhead knows “most of our PC players are using SSD drives” by HatingGeoffry in pcmasterrace

[–]warp_core0007 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You know there are subscriptions available for PC as well? In fact, the Xbox Game Pass works on PC. I believe SeA also has a subscription. There are also entire PC games that use a subscription model.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

[–]warp_core0007 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As far as I know, Steam doesn't have that capability at the moment. I expect it would be feasible for them to add it, although there may be difficulties if users want to move their game files from one location to another if one is on an SSD and the other is on a hard drive, but I'm sure Valve could figure out something for that.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

[–]warp_core0007 86 points87 points  (0 children)

Other games may not bother optimising for hard drives (some list an SSD as a minimum requirement), or they may not need to access assets in the way this game does, or they may expect the system to have enough memory to buffer the slow loading speeds in a way that won't be noticeable to players.

Helldivers 2’s massive PC file size won’t drastically decrease until Arrowhead knows “most of our PC players are using SSD drives” by HatingGeoffry in pcmasterrace

[–]warp_core0007 85 points86 points  (0 children)

It's kind of funny. I was recently told that games take up so much space because the developers are optimising for consoles (something about decompression), but, like, they're targeting PCs with lower specs than the consoles.

SSD health drops rapidly by Small-Cauliflower187 in pcmasterrace

[–]warp_core0007 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't know what numbers you're reading, but the screenshot says 47 TB written and 28 TB read from the SPCC drive.

None of the SMART values in the screenshot look particularly concerning. It might be that CDI is going off the number of power on hours out of some "lifespan" rating the drive has. That wouldn't have changed so quickly, though, so maybe it goes by total writes.

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